It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according to a new study. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory were ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

This is important context for understanding both star and planet formation.” JWST located the rogue planets in the young nebula NGC 1333. This star-forming cluster is located about a thousand ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...

In a world of digital streaming and instant access to music, vinyl and analog listening culture is being carefully tended and cultivated at Rogue Planet Music (RPM), a record shop in Des Moines.

The primary method for detecting rogue planets is gravitational microlensing. This happens when a rogue planet passes in front of a distant star, temporarily bending and amplifying its light due to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken ... They said they found a planet-rich region -- near a star in the constellation Orion -- where stars, brown dwarfs and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have generated the first-ever weather report of a rogue exoplanet-like ... "[I]t's not a planet in the traditional sense — since it ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s been a while now since astronomers began openly discussing the possibility of a ...

Freeman tells Tech Insider that a "rogue planet," which is a world "not gravitationally bound to any particular solar systems — planets that essentially are just hurtling through space," could ...

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At 700 AU, Planet Nine would be 65 billion miles (105 billion kilometers) from the sun. Alternatively, perhaps it was a rogue planet picked up by the sun, maybe early in the history of the solar ...